European Agriculture - Policies, Production and Trade (Paperback)

European agricultural policy is too often a tangled web of technicalities wrapped in incomprehensible jargon. Yet it deals with the most basic human requirement - food. This work attempts to explain the complexities of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), the 1994 General Agreement of Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and the changes that are being forced on agricultural policy in Europe by environmental legislation, biotechnology and political change. Reforms of the CAP were agreed in 1992. Explaining the reform programme in detail, the book goes on to question the effectiveness of the reform and suggests that they will do nothing to diminish the costliness of the CAP or prevent European farm production overstepping the limits imposed by the 1994 GATT agreement. Referring to a wide geographical range of European case material, the author challenges the common assumption that in a world apparently short of food it makes sense to expand high-cost European farm production. It is clear that continued over-production will inevitably lead to new political conflicts with America and other major agricultural exporting nations.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	October 1996
First published:	1996
Authors:	Brian Gardner
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	244
ISBN-13:	978-0-415-08533-5
Categories:	Books > Professional & Technical > Agriculture & farming > General Books > Business & Economics > Industry & industrial studies > Primary industries > Agriculture & related industries Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Pollution & threats to the environment > General Books > Business & Economics > Economics > International economics > International trade > General
LSN:	0-415-08533-0
Barcode:	9780415085335

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